Quotes About Truth

The diffeence between a fake death and a real one is slim. Mara

Jesus functions like a mirror. I have a face, but I can't see it without a mirror. The mirror doesn't give me a face; it only shows me what I already have. Jesus describes what he does as showing us what we already have. He reveals rather than creates.

Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you've got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you're willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

The truth is there's not enough miracles to go around, kid. And there's too many people petitioning God for the winning lotto ticket. And for every answered prayer, there's a cricket with arthritis. And the only reason we can't find answers is because the search party didn't invite us.

Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.

But let's look at "God won't give you more than you can handle" in a little more detail. First of all, this statement cannot be found anywhere in the Bible. Most people who say it claim it's because they've heard others use it. But as far as it being something God actually said? No, it's not in there.

... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little

My friends call me by my name." "You don't have any friends." "I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

I was thinking how you can't tell if a person's beautiful or not by her shadow...

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Sometimes instinct isn't fancy.

It's a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder.

Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and leaping out unexpectedly. Words were slippery and alive; words wrestled out of her grip and became something new. Words were dangerous.

She was not who she'd thought she was. No one was.

Tomorrow's a red flush in the western sky Tomorrow's a black hush in the middle night Tomorrow swears the truth of now, now, and now In the trembling blue gasp of the morning light

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

Pobrecita niña. ¿Tu padre te mintió cuando eras un retoño de bruja? ¿Te aseguró que tenías un buen corazón y que, si querías cuando crecieras podrías llegar a ser tan buena, estúpida y aburrida como él.

1 Pardon this highly unusual footnote, but I must break the Narrator's "fourth wall" to explain that this story will be "tricksy" in more than one way. Kitty Cheshire does not like being narrated. She seems to be aware of my watching her, and she resists. At times her thoughts and feelings squirm away from my inspection. I shall do my best, however, to narrate a completely true story about Ever After's most elusive character.